by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire native Alan Shepard hit two golfs during his stint on the moon for Apollo 14. New video images show how far they went. Not all that far, despite the vacuum and low gravity. Details are here from the BBC.
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
It turns out that the right-to-repair law passed in Massachusetts and uphold by courts “does essentially mean there would be no proper security controls preventing someone from remotely connecting into a car” and may not go into effect after all, although...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember Terrafugia? If you’re a long-time reader you do, because I wrote frequently about that Massachusetts effort to build a flying car (“roadable aircraft” was their preferred term), which basically looked like a funky Honda Civic with giant...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The district geothermal pilot in Framingham, Mass., that I wrote about last year has broken ground and it’s getting a lot of attention. “A New Kind of Clean Energy Utility is Born in Massachusetts” is how Heatmap, an online media company covering...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Of all the problems that are plaguing New Hampshire’s forests these days, the cutest are the deer. Those deep eyes! Those big ears! That flash of white tail as they bound through a field! Who doesn’t love them? Anybody (like me) with a deer-ransacked garden,...